Deckbuilding

Frame · Genre genre

Collecting, combining, optimizing – your own deck becomes a personal machine that runs ever better.

Design question – In your game you build something that grows more powerful over time. What is collected – cards, abilities, tools? And when does the deck become a machine?

Associations

• Typical Activities – Buying, Playing, Combining, Optimizing

Coherence

Core expectations: acquiring cards during play, deck optimization, combo discovery, engine building, iterative improvement. Mechanisms: Deck Construction, Market (card market), Combo, Thinning (removing cards), Draw Engine. Activities: Buying, Playing, Combining, Optimizing. Ludic Temporal Structure: turn-based (a turn = draw, play, buy cards); sessions 30–60 min. Ludic Social Structure: 1v1, FFA, solo (against automa/game).